Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 25, 2017

  1. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  about 7 years ago

    State of the World of DT

    Who is this story about?

    While we were taking a little side trip with the Moon Governor, I said I was going to post something about who this story is about, once we got back to the Nitrates. Let me say first of all that I think Dick Tracy stories are very character-driven. The settings are rarely the main focus.

    The story is likely to be about someone who appears often and, ideally, someone who has a goal that drives the story forward. There are about five characters who appear frequently in this story, so let’s go through them.

    The first obvious character is Dick Tracy. After all, isn’t the strip named after him? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now: the stories in Dick Tracy are rarely about Tracy. It’s generally another character who has the goal that drives the story forward. Tracy’s goal is to stop the criminals from reaching their goals. Strangely, you might consider him the antagonist. His primary purpose is to prevent the protagonists of each story from succeeding. Also, there isn’t usually a way for Tracy to have a life-changing purpose. If he changed his life much, the strip would stop.

    Ms. Thorndike has been another frequent character in this story, but she is just the victim. She had her goal of adding that special item to her Lincoln collection, but she is not the character that drives the story forward.

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    AnyFace  about 7 years ago
    ”Enter: Adam Austin.”
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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  about 7 years ago

    Good morning guys!

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  4. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  about 7 years ago

    This is Adam Austin, writer of the series of books that the Midnite Mirror movie is based on.

    http://worldofdt.info/img/150/Adam_Austin.png

    Today we see that he accidentally bumps into Sprocket, whose real name is apparently “Susan.” She is quite pleased by this, judging by her expression in the last panel.

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    jrankin1959  about 7 years ago

    Uh-oh…

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 7 years ago

    “Bob” Dobbs is losing his hair but gaining a beard?

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  7. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  about 7 years ago

    I just saw an interesting article “Moon caves could be home to future astronauts.” The caves or tunnels would protect people from exposure to dangerous radiation.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/moon-caves-home-astronauts-1.4367437

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    Sisyphos  about 7 years ago

    “Well, Susan, allow me to introduce myself….”

    I would never have recognized this bookish-looking guy as Adam Austin, the author of the basis for Midnite Mirror, so thanks for the skinny, clever commenters (notably Neil). My 2-cents-worth is that “Susan” is not Sprocket’s real, given name. I suspect her real name is “Sprocket,” thanks to her hippie ancestry. “Susan” is a name she made up on the spur of the moment, with just a slight hesitation (as Pequod observed), because she does not know who just bumped into her and must treat him with suspicion at first, both as being a fugitive and as being a woman alone on the street. Might they strike up a friendship? You bet! Could Adam come to be her means of breaking with unrepentant Silver, hmm?…

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  9. Neil2009
    Neil Wick  about 7 years ago

    I’ve suddenly acquired a very bad cough. I’m going to try to sleep it off so I’m not planning to be up when the new strip is posted. I’ll talk to you all later.

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    clayface9 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    A classic “meet cute”.

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    David Roberts  about 7 years ago

    Wait a minute! How did Sprocket get in to the coffeeshop without any shoes on her feet?! I’m beginning to think this comic strip is not very realistic!

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